Drawing on the examples of the Paris Commune and 20th century workers’ councils—’the only new invention of the communist movement in the 20th century’—Bernes distills their successes and failures into a description of communism that is at once abstract and practical
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Under what conditions could a confrontation between poetry and history yield to the defeat of history? And what is it in poetry that could defeat history? Is it the simple act of bearing witness? The deep, sharp gaze? The pressing quest to embody experience? Or is it the desperate attempt at making meaning? We don’t know. All we know is that we received, read, and translated poetry as the Israeli assault on Gaza, and now in Lebanon next door, rages on.
— Read on www.madamasr.com/en/2024/10/06/feature/politics/poetry-in-the-face-of-history-letter-to-an-israeli-soldier/

Decades before today’s tensions between black communities and the police, J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders targeted literary legends as dangerous dissidents.
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The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration’s war against the left.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means and politics is concentrated economics (Materials for a poem) • Protean Magazine
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